No.

As far as the Bylaws go, only Tombstones and Census exist as separate special projects. However, I felt that the page was more useful to the researcher if ALL projects that were "special" in nature were listed. I STILL believe strongly that ALL records belong in ONE central repository, that repository being The USGenWeb Archives. It really doesn't matter if the Project stands alone or is a sub of the archives - the records belong there. I guess that where opinions start to differ. Pam

No.

>Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, >by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. The way the motion is currently phrased, I will have to vote No. ************** I think there is a great deal of merit, though, in Maggie Stewart's conception of the historian as a "timeline maintainer". It would be extremely valuable if there was someone responsible for maintaining a table of the dates that each state first came online, who held offices over what periods, etc. The longer we go without recording such info systematically, the harder it is to recover it. Something that we are all familiar with as genealogists. But many of the comments made by other board members (the historian should be tactful, unbiased, etc.) seem to envision a more narrative history, which I think is a bad idea for the reasons that Virginia expressed. Since it is unclear which of the two kinds of historian a yes vote would be voting for, I vote no.

Aye RootsLady (aka) Barbara Yancey Dore ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: <BOARD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 10:38 PM Subject: [BOARD-L] Motion 00-1 - vote > Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, > by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. > > Thanks, > > Tim >

abstain At 11:38 PM 1/26/00 -0500, you wrote: >Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, >by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. > >Thanks, > >Tim >

yes Shari Handley -----Original Message----- From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com <BOARD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, January 27, 2000 12:17 AM Subject: [BOARD-L] Motion 00-1 - vote Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. Thanks, Tim

I tend to agree with Jim on this. It's extremely difficult to create a written history without injecting bias of some sort into the facts. A perfect example of this is to view accounts of the Revolutionary War published in the US with British accounts of that same War. Our time and energy would be far better spent elsewhere so therefore I vote NO. Virginia Cisewski NW-Plains CC Rep

Yes. Tina Vickery In a message dated 1/27/00 12:14:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, tstowell@chattanooga.net writes: > Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, > by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. > > Thanks, > > Tim

No Betsy At 11:38 PM 01/26/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, >by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. > >Thanks, > >Tim >

Yes Ginger gingerh@shawneelink.com -----Original Message----- From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com <BOARD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:30 PM Subject: [BOARD-L] Motion 00-1 - vote >Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, >by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. > >Thanks, > >Tim >

abstain At 11:38 PM 1/26/00 -0500, you wrote: >Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, >by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. > >Thanks, > >Tim

No Jim Tim Stowell wrote: > Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, > by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. > > Thanks, > > Tim

Aye. Joe Tim Stowell wrote: > > Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, > by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. > > Thanks, > > Tim -- Zsedeny Genealogy - http://www.rootsweb.com/~jzed/home.htm NDGenWeb Archives - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/ndfiles.htm Pembina County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndpembin/pembina.htm Ramsey County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndramsey/ramsey.htm

Yes, Gloria Tim Stowell wrote: > > Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, > by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. > > Thanks, > > Tim -- Southwest/South Central CC Representative, USGenWeb Advisory Board Personal page http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/gmayfield/index.html TX Tombstone Project Manager http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/Texas/ Texas Surnames http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrusk/txsurnames.html Panola County TX USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~txpanola/ Rusk County TX USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrusk/index.htm

Yes to appointing a historian. Maggie Stewart ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: <BOARD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:38 PM Subject: [BOARD-L] Motion 00-1 - vote Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. Thanks, Tim

Yes Richard... Tim Stowell wrote: > > Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, > by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. > > Thanks, > > Tim -- Richard M. Howland Mailto:RichPump@wf.net ICQ # 898319 NE/NCR CC Representative HOWLAND-L List Co-ordinator WOODWORKING-L list Co-ordinator VARNER-L List Co-ordinator FISHING-L list Co-ordinator ILPIATT-L List Co-ordinator HEDGEHOGS-L List Co-ordinator TXYOUNG-L List Co-ordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilpiatt/piatt.htm http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richpump/YoungCountyCemPage.htm http://www.pets.rootsweb.com/~hedgehogs/index.html http://www.crafts.rootsweb.com/~woodworking/index.html http://www.wf.net/~richpump/HowlandOnLine.html

Please cast your vote on Motion 00-1 to appoint a historian of the Project, by replying with your equivalent of yes, no, abstain. Thanks, Tim

For those who wish to contact the Board directly concerning items posted here, please refer to the National web site for our current addresses. Please do not post messages to the list (Board-L) as each such post bounces out to my address. Messages sent to this list either in error or on purpose go no further. If someone who is unauthorized to post to this list continues to do so, they will be unsubbed from this list. So far this has not been a widespread problem. This is a public notice, of consequences for those who fail to heed this request. Timothy S Stowell email - tstowell@chattanooga.net Chattanooga, TN National Coordinator USGenWeb Project - http://www.usgenweb.org

I have been researching copyright law and how it relates to email. I have sent several posts to our "private" Executive-list but decided to share what I am finding with our volunteers in order that they not unwittingly violate the copyright laws. First, email is protected under the copyright statute. Check it out here: http://www.benedict.com/basic/basic/scope.htm Check out this URL: http://www.benedict.com/news/headlines/headlines.htm and the reference. Reference: SOURCE: Boardwatch Magazine, Vol. IX, Issue 5, May 1995 Here we find that the CRIMINAL copyright statute was used against a BBS operator. Email wasn't in question here but since email is covered under the law the same applies. Then go to this URL: http://www.benedict.com/news/headlines/headlines.htm Reference: SOURCE: Wired, Warez Wars, April, 1997 Here we are talking about civil law. The Software Publishers Association (SPA) sued to show that ISP operators are responsible for the content carried on their servers. They stayed prosecution, which apparently means the other party agreed to desist from the action. So summing this up. Those who forward, receive, republish and carry such on their server are all punishable under the copyright statute, either criminal or civil. Now don't let this scare you about forwarding innocent messages with no desire to malign. But technically every message forwarded requires the approval of the sender or list owner. Pirated messages from closed lists or parts thereof, attached and posted elsewhere without permission are actionable under criminal and/or civil statute. The proof that this happened resides in abundance on computers throughout the Project. This Board, your Board, cannot be effective if it is constantly held up to ridicule. The present members of this Board have taken every opportunity to make our deliberations open and available to our member volunteers. We endeavor to answer every email and act on those with merit. I personally have never failed to respond to a message which was sent in an honest attempt to get an answer, whether from a constituent or not. But I will not respond in the future to messages whose only clear intent is to ridicule and down grade this potentially wonderful Project for mean and small reasons. I shall do all in my power, along with my fellow Board members, to insure that the pirating of email on and from the Board lists stops. If that means pursuing legal action, so be it. In the future if someone wants to use Board list materials for reprint or reposting I would strongly suggest they get permission from our National Coordinator, Tim Stowell. Joe -- Zsedeny Genealogy - http://www.rootsweb.com/~jzed/home.htm NDGenWeb Archives - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/ndfiles.htm Pembina County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndpembin/pembina.htm Ramsey County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndramsey/ramsey.htm